The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-08-20

yelopment of new country and the
building of a town. A good solid
. invoice of new blood in this sage
brush country seems to even have
the effect of resurrecting commune
ties and institutions which have
dropped SO far behind the age as to
be out of sight. Our risky young
railroad town Of Caldwell is desery-
ling Of the lasting gratitude of its
PROVINCIAL old neighbor thirty
miles up the river for the constant
examples of modern progress set.
Caldwell has some right to be cor
respondingly proud-but it is not
of the loyal following Of Boise. For
instance: Before Caldwell's first
house was fairly completed it organ
lied and set in full motion a tele-
phone exchange. Boise followed
suit with commendable promptness.
Following the telephone quickly
Caldwell built the first free wagon
bridge across Boise river-the first
bridge without a toll gate across
any Of the unfordable streams of
Idaho. Again should Boise be
praised for the degree of haste with
which she followed and abolished
the toll gate which for a score of
years had stood at the bridge at the
end of her business street-a terror
izing menace to the ranchman and
frcighter.
Caldwell soon built $4,000 no.
tel and while Boise did not "ante-
up" in full on this occasion she has
seriously considered the whole mat
ter" and that is admirable.
Caldwell in her first few months
an extensive irrigation
system on the elevated sage brush
ands surrounding. Boise was again
equal to the emergency and in her
hree years of tremendous exertion
las finally got her canal half way
Q the top of the beautiful sage
'rush bench lands mile from her
apitol building and which for a
Iuarter of century have been "the /;
desert pleading to the !
rose"
Always mindful of the needs of .
er surroundings, Caldwell, at an
pportune time, planted her prom
'ing suburb, Nampa With a de-
rec OF alaority unprecedented in G
IL her former efforts al becoming a
God second" and with measure
earnestness and honest sincerity
our unlimited thanks,
Disc again wheeled into line Her
onderous assistance in this scheme
a matter of note, no less among
IT thousands of Nampa friends
ian among the great commercial
relies Of Boise herself.
Caldwell has more recently seen :
to advance another peg, in the
after of organizing a Fair Asso-
alton, and is making all necessary
to hold first-class q
gricultural Fair this fall Boise O
IS again come to the front and IN
IS taken such steps as will, we L
lst, soon end in results not dis b
editable to the example this al
etropolis has set her. 10
Caldwell has also recently organ WI
ID a Board of Trade. Thanks tn
ain to the progressive spirit re-
's'a-now seems to have really ~
a 1I r' II INFO essbsaqtiful capital To-
ty," the news this advance l,
as not allowed to grow cold up e,
ere, and Boise is now also earn7 !. :,
tly endeavoring to organize real, u
We, full-fledged Board of Trade. a
Caldwell viii next Friday even
g organize Building and Loan
ssociation. Again will Boise =
i've an opportunity to show her =
wv thoroughly awakened enter
Use, and let us hope that she will
Jain come up smiling,
These are only a few of the more a.
ointment Illustrations we might =
We of our statement at the begin p
ng, that "the force of example is 10
eat" tc